Tesla’s Engineering Chief Takes Leave of Absence at Pivotal Moment
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#2This timing seems about right to me. Most of the wrinkles appear to be out of the Model 3 production now. Designing the Model Y is about to start. Right now would be the right time to take some well deserved R&R.
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#3Is it normal in America to be in the news when you take some vacations?
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#4Is it normal in America to be in the news when you take some vacations?
A vacation of several weeks when you’re a chief? Most certainly. Investors need to know.
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#5Is it normal in America to be in the news when you take some vacations?
I hope not, but I think it's normal for newspapers to maximize revenue by playing up potentially mundane events.
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#6Just like anything Trump seems to become a news article, so does anything Tesla.
I can't even read the news without rolling my eyes and thinking WTF?
An article about Trump or Elon Musk/Tesla even if it's completely uncalled for or factually incorrect seems to become "news".
Journalistic quality has definitely gone downhill in the last decade or two.
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#7Is it normal in America to be in the news when you take some vacations?
A vacation of several weeks when you’re a chief? Most certainly. Investors need to know.
> Investors need to know.
Really? That's nonsense. This sentiment is a great example of what's so toxic about the public markets now. Everyone is complaining that so much value creation is happening in private companies going public later - a big reason is because of this idea that investors should care about when one person at a 36,000 person company goes on vacation and that this should move the stock price. Ridiculous. It's distracting noise.
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#8Is it normal in America to be in the news when you take some vacations?
If people have multi-billion bets against your employer and they want to pay for an ominous sounding article, then yes.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
A vacation of several weeks when you’re a chief? Most certainly. Investors need to know.
> Investors need to know. Really? That's nonsense. This sentiment is a great example of what's so toxic about the public markets now. Everyone is complaining that so much value creation is happening in private companies going public later - a big reason is because of this idea that investors should care about when one person at a 36,000 person company goes on vacation and that this should move the stock price. Ridicu…
I agree. There's gotta be a limit to how short-term-oriented/short-sighted investors can be. What's next? "Stock plunges when CEO goes to the bathroom"?